okie@ihuxs.UUCP (10/27/83)
Here's one that I began thinking about the other day; it's now
driving me right up the wall, so I thought I'd share the grilef
(make that "grief") with you in netland.
Can anyone out there remember offhand the names of the CM/LEM pairs
for all of the Apollo flights? I can only remember three:
Apollo IX: Gumdrop and Spider
Apollo X: Charlie Brown and Snoopy
Apollo XI: Columbia and Eagle
Answers would be greatly appreciated. If you can remember them all,
you might want to post it generally; otherwise, just a reply will do.
Thanks,
B.K. Cobb
AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL
ihuxs!okiekarn@eagle.UUCP (Phil Karn) (10/28/83)
Once again, that wonderful trivia book "The History of Manned Space Flight", by David Baker, comes through. Here's the complete list: Apollo 9: Gumdrop and Spider Apollo 10: Charlie Brown and Snoopy Apollo 11: Columbia and Eagle Apollo 12: Yankee Clipper and Intrepid Apollo 13: Odyssey and Aquarius Apollo 14: Kitty Hawk and Antares Apollo 15: Endeavor and Falcon Apollo 16: Casper and Orion Apollo 17: America and Challenger That was easy. Try something harder! Phil
ajs@hpfcla.UUCP (11/08/83)
#R:ihuxs:-41900:hpfcla:22000001:000:914 hpfcla!ajs Nov 6 18:58:00 1983 I don't know the names of the Apollo CM/LEM pairs, but you did get me thinking about another piece of Apollo trivia. I have a recording made off the TV of the Apollo 11 landing. It amazes me that about 15 seconds of that historic event have virtually disappeared. Between "contact light" and "we copy you down", there is a stream of technical jargon (from Aldrin?) that you just don't hear anymore. Apparently it was edited out of some key masters that made their way into common use (I'm guessing about that...). Not only that, but, the 15-second fragment is also absent from "transcripts" published in newspapers the next day, and even from the Apollo 11 Mission Report! Before I post it, does anyone have an accurate transcript? Some of the words are a little hard to hear. There's something about "ACLM out of descent" I'm not sure of... Alan Silverstein, hpfcla!ajs
karn@eagle.UUCP (Phil Karn) (11/09/83)
Here's the transcript from the Apollo 11 landing, also from the book "The History of Manned Space Flight": EAGLE: Faint shadow. 4 forward. 4 forward, drifting to the right a little. 6...down a half. CAPCOM: 30 seconds. EAGLE: Forward. Drifting right...contact light. Okay, engine stop. ACA out of detent. Modes control both auto, descent engine command override off. Engine arm off. 413 is in. CAPCOM: We copy you down, Eagle. ARMSTRONG: Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed. CAPCOM: Roger, Tranquility, we copy you on the ground. You've got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again. Thanks a lot. EAGLE: Thank you.
bane@umcp-cs.UUCP (11/10/83)
I believe this jargon was caused by a landing computer overload, forcing
Armstrong to take over full manual control in the last few meters of
descent.
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Uucp:...{allegra,seismo}!umcp-cs!banejlg@lanl-a.UUCP (11/16/83)
The landing computer was not 'overloaded', it was taking them into a large field of boulders. Armstrong voluntarily took over flight controls to land in a safer area.
jon@hp-pcd.UUCP (11/29/83)
#R:ihuxs:-41900:hp-pcd:8400012:000:144 hp-pcd!jon Nov 28 12:47:00 1983 This LEM guidance computer had 32K bytes of ROM and 2K bytes of RAM. Its easy to see how it could be overloaded (read as compute bound). Jon B